Compucon HPC Workstation |
August 2012 | |
This system is a bold attempt to bring high performance computing to the desktop for a very affordable price. This Compucon HPC Workstation is housed in a standard Compucon server chassis which can rest on the desktop or be mounted in a standard 19" cabinet. The CPU is an Intel Core i7 3930K with 16GB of DDR3 memory. Computation is powered by Tesla on CUDA. Graphical display is handled by a standard graphics card. It has 2 low cost SATA HDD that can be installed as redundant and hot swappable, or just on host RAID and externally accessible. The system is upgradeable or scaleable to a certain limit. The following slides were produced by this system showing how a galaxy evolved over time. The system simulated the evolution with 14336 stars (this number is small in a galaxy), and the 3 slides show 3 different scales of display.
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